etymon

See also: étymon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/

Noun
Examples

the Latin candidus (“white”) is the etymon of the English candid.

etymon (plural etymons or etyma)

  1. The source word of a given word.

Translations

See also

References
  • etymon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • etymon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ty.mon/, [ˈɛ.tʏ.mɔn]

Noun

etymon n (genitive etymī); second declension

  1. etymon

Inflection

Second declension, Greek type.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative etymon etyma
Genitive etymī etymōrum
Dative etymō etymīs
Accusative etymon etyma
Ablative etymō etymīs
Vocative etymon etyma

References
  • etymon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • etymon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
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